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Apple's fiercest critics may lose (at least partially) one of their key discussion points if a new rumor becomes reality in the new year.

Apple's Asian-based manufacturing partner Foxconn is certainly not about to bolt on Asia in order to move its entire outfit to North America, but the company that helps produce millions of iPhones may still open one or more manufacturning plants in the United States.

According to published reports Thursday, Foxonn may set up shop in either Los Angeles, California or Detroit, Michigan sometime in the coming year. "Since the manufacturing of Apple's products is rather complicated," Digitimes reports, "the market watchers expect the rumored plants to focus on LCD TV production, which can be highly automated and easier."

For now, this may be as close as we get to seeing Apple products "made in the USA." But it remains a positive sign and one that will likely be warmly embraced by many Apple fans and critics alike.

Why?? It will be a automated factory making things that require very few people! And the fact apple will likely pay most of the build costs! Use up some of the interest they have coming in!

Labor pay in China is very cheap, so they got to compensate enforcing quality control and automating the system so their costs can emulate almost China which never will be similar but with more quality. Anyways if they still opening more factories here in USA, yes thats good for us, more employment, but I see a higher cost per unit in future iPhones and iPads. So be ready for the next Mini iPad 2 for $450.00

Labor pay in China is very cheap, so they got to compensate enforcing quality control and automating the system so their costs can emulate almost China which never will be similar but with more quality. Anyways if they still opening more factories here in USA, yes thats good for us, more employment, but I see a higher cost per unit in future iPhones and iPads. So be ready for the next Mini iPad 2 for $450.00

Why would it be more quality just because it is made in the USA....this is a rumour that will never happen.

Everyone does realize that Foxconn has more clients than Apple right? What the article is stating is that since they are spending so much time on Apple products and the likes, they are thinking of building a factory here to outsource some of their production of LCD TV's, etc. They aren't going to be making iPhone's.